Sustainability

MAS Holding Plans Buying Climate Positive Cellulosic Yarn

Textile Insights July 7, 2023

Sri Lanka headquartered MAS Holdings and one of the biggest garment manufacturers in the country, will buy HeiQ AeoniQ Climate Positive Cellulosic yarn as part of its ‘Plan for Change’ initiative to support the development of next-generation cellulosic filament fibres to replace polyester and

Export

EU Garment Imports Drop 7.62% in Jan-April 2023

Textile Insights July 7, 2023

European Union import of garments declined 7.62 percent year on year to US $29.83 billion in the first four months of the current year. “Imports in quantity terms between January and April 2023 plunged lower at 15.45% from a year ago period,” data from Eurostat revealed. Only apparel imports from India and Vietnam recorded positive […]

Corporates

Marco Salvadè Appointed As New President Of ACIMIT

Textile Insights July 6, 2023

Marco Salvadè has been appointed as new President of the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers (ACIMIT) at its general assembly meeting held on July 4. Marco Salvadè who is the President of Salvade Srl, replaces Alessandro Zucchi as President of ACIMIT. Salvade Srl is a manufacturer of textile finishing machinery. He has been an […]

Software

Thai Sock Picks Coats’ FastReactPlan To Unify Systems

Textile Insights July 6, 2023

Thai Sock has chosen Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan to connect and consolidate capacity planning information across disparate sources into one highly visual and unified system. By streamlining business critical information into a single digitised source, FastReactPlan will optimise data visibility across the yarn and knitting plan teams to increase production efficiencies

Sustainability

New EU Rules Make Producers Liable For Circularity In Textiles

Textile Insights July 6, 2023

The European Commission is proposing rules to make producers responsible for the full lifecycle of textile products and to support the sustainable management of textile waste across the EU. This initiative will accelerate the development of the separate collection, sorting, reuse and recycling sector for textiles in the EU, in line with the EU Strategy […]

Sustainability

Kannapiran Mills Receives $2.5mn Sustainability Initiative Loan

Textile Insights July 6, 2023

The Good Fashion Fund (GFF) along with other like-minded organisations has invested US $2.5 million in Sri Kannapiran Mills Limited (SKML), which is an Indian producer of cotton yarn and sustainable denim fabrics. The loan will help support Kannapiran Mills’ investment in replacing and expanding of key sustainable equipments in two of their spinning factories […]

Industry

170 Tamil Nadu Open-End Spinning Mills Stop Production

Textile Insights July 6, 2023

Around 170 open-end spinning mills in Tamil Nadu stopped production by going on an indefinite strike citing various reasons including hike in power tariffs and increase in waste yarn prices, which have led to hike in production costs. “Open-end spinning mills are dependent on waste cotton from spinning mills and fabric waste from knitwear companies. […]

Tete-A-Tete

Zimmer Unveils New Screen Stripping Technology At ITMA

Textile Insights July 5, 2023

At ITMA 2023, Zimmer unveiled a new technology for Screen Stripping by displaying a machine. With the earlier screen stripping technologies, the screen could be reused only 4-5 times, but with the new Zimmer ironing technology, the screens can be reused atleast 10 times. “There are many companies supplying waterjet stripping technologies in the market. […]

Apparel, Fashion, Retail

Amaze Software Picks Kornit’s Global Fulfillment Network

Textile Insights July 5, 2023

Amaze Software has picked Israel based Kornit Digital’s Global Fulfillment Network, which is made up by integrating KornitX Workflow Solutions and Kornit MAX. Kornit’s Global Fulfillment Network helps companies like Amaze Software, connect creators with high-quality garment and textile production fulfillers across the globe. “The social commerce market is growing rapidly,

Sustainability

Cellulose Fibre Recycler Renewcell Launches Supplier Network

Textile Insights July 5, 2023

Textile recycling innovator Renewcell, has launched CIRCULOSE Supplier Network (CSN), which is a group of 47 yarn and textile producers, who will help drive the circular economy and create a steady source of CIRCULOSE in the market. CSN members will streamline CIRCULOSE production across the supply chain and are committed to continuous development of circular […]